Nigeria, June 26 -- Nigeria continues to lag behind in protecting the fundamental rights of its citizens, recording poor scores across key indicators measuring access to food, healthcare, housing, education, employment and civil liberties, according to a new global human rights assessment.

Data released by the Human Rights Measurement Initiative (HRMI), an independent international non-profit organisation, show that Africa's most populous country remains in the "very bad" category on several economic and social rights indicators despite modest improvements in some areas over the past two decades.

The findings are contained in HRMI's 2026 Rights Tracker report, seen by PREMIUM TIMES on Thursday, which evaluates countries' performance in ...